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Coated Conductor technology for the beamscreen chamber of future high energy circular colliders
09 August 2019
Teresa Puig, Patrick Krkotic, Artur Romanov, Joan O'Callaghan, Danilo Andrea Zanin, Holger Neupert, Pedro Costa Pinto, Pierre Demolon, Ângelo Rafael Granadeiro Costa, Mauro Taborelli, Francis Perez, Montse Pont, Joffre Gutierrez and Sergio Calatroni. Superconductor Science and Technology

The surface resistance of state-of-the-art REBa2Cu3O7-x coated conductors has been measured at 8 GHz versus temperature and magnetic field. We show that the surface resistance of REBa2Cu3O7-x strongly depends on the microstructure of the material. We have compared our results to those determined by the rigid fluxon model. The model gives a very good qualitative description of our data, opening the door to unravel the effect of material microstructure and vortex interactions on the surface resistance of high temperature superconductors. Moreover, it provides a powerful tool to design the best coated conductor architecture that minimizes the in-field surface resistance. We have found that the surface resistance of REBa2Cu3O7-x at 50 K and up to 9 T is lower than that of copper. This fact poses coated conductors as strong candidate to substitute copper as a beam-screen coating in CERN's future circular collider. To this end we have also analysed the secondary electron yield of REBa2Cu3O7-x and found a compatible coating made of sputtered Ti and amorphous Carbon that decreases the secondary electron yield close to unity, a mandatory requirement for the beam screen chamber of a circular collider in order to prevent the electron-cloud phenomenon.

Coated Conductor technology for the beamscreen chamber of future high energy circular colliders

 

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Coated Conductor technology for the beamscreen chamber of future high energy circular colliders